Fastening devices for wearing apparel



Aug. 27, 1963 H. H. WOOD FASTENING DEVICES FOR WEARING APPAREL FiledNov. 15, 1960 H. H. Wood, INVENTOR 1 BY OLA 11 ATTORNEYS United StatesPatent O 3,101,518 FASTENING DEVICES FOR WEARING APPAREL Herbert HowardWood, Birmingham, England, assignor to Thomas Walker Limited,Birmingham, England, a British company Filed Nov. 15, 1960, Ser. No.69,468 Claims. (Cl. 24-227) This invention relates to fastening devicesfor wearing apparel, and especially for detachably connecting theoverlapping ends of the waistbands of trousers, skints and the like;said fastening devices being of the kind comprising a hook, or theequivalent of a hook (such as a cranked plate), adapted for detachableengagement with an eye, staple or loop part, and adapted to be securedto the garment by means of clenched prongs.

Heretofore, such hooks or hook equivalents have been attached by meansof prongs carried either on a base portion thereof or on a separate backplate applied to the opposite face of the garment material to that towhich the hook or the like is attached, but with such method ofattachment the clenching of the prongs has involved the use of tools ordies which include an anvil for the curling over and closing down of theprongs.

An object of the present invention is to provide an improved fasteningdevice which can be attached to the material of a garment by means of aprong-carrying back plate without the use of :dies or tools whichinclude an anvil for clenching the prongs.

A iurther object is to provide an improved fastening device which isadapted to be attached to a garment by a prong-carrying back platewithout the prongs being visible when the attachment operation has beencompleted.

According to the invention, a fastening device for wearing apparelcomprises a plate one end of which forms a hook tongue and the other endof which is folded over to form a transverse pocket for receiving theprongs of a prong-carrying back plate, the lower wall of the pocketbeing adapted to seat upon the garment material and the upper wall ofsaid pocket being provided with inclined prong-clenching surfacesadapted to co-operate with the prongs, during the clenching operation,and cause them to be bent over inside the pocket.

In the accompanying drawing,

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a fastening device in accordance withthe invention, shown together with its associated prong-carrying backplate.

FIGURE 2 is a top plan view of the device shown attached to garmentmaterial.

FIGURE 3 is a sectional view on line III-III, FIG- URE 2,

FIGURE 4 is a sectional view on line IV-IV, =FIG- URE 3.

FIGURE 5 is an underside plan view of the device,

and

FIGURE 6 represents an end elevation.

FIGURE 7 is a side-elevational view showing a modified form of fasteningdevice, and

FIGURE 8 is a perspective view of the fastening device shown in FIGURE7.

The device shown in FIGURES 1 to 6 comprises a sheet-metal 1 crankedtransversely at 2 to produce a base part 3 and a forwardly-spaced tongue4 which serves as the equivalent of a hook for engagement with a staple,bridge-piece, loop or the like. The base part 3 is of the same width asthe forwardly-spaced tongue 4 and the rear end portion is extended, theextension part 5 being folded forwardly over the main lower part of thebase so as to lie in spaced relation thereto and thus form a transverseopen-ended pocket or sleeve 6 (see FIGURES 3 and 4), the end edge 7 ofsaid bent-over extension part 5 lying adjacent the crank 2 between thefront tongue 3,19 1 ,5 l 8 Patented Aug. 27, 1 963 ice 4 and the basepart 3. Opposite side edges of the base part '3 have gaps or notches 8formed in them, and the opposite side portions 9, 9, of the folded-overextension part 5 (forming the top wall of the pocket 6) are bent down toa chamtered or bevel form and lie over the gaps or notches -8.

This hook-like device is attached to the garment by means of a backplate .10' which is applied to the rear face of the garment material"and which is provided towards one end with two upstanding pointedprongs 11, 11, one at each side of the plate Ill and spaced from oneanother by a distance equal to that between the gaps or notches 8 in thebase part 3 of the hook-like device. In attaching the device, thesepron-gs 11, 11 are passed through the garment material 12 from the rearand, by means of a clenching press, are caused to pass through said gaps8, 8, of the hook device which is positioned on the front face of thematerial, the points of the prongs 11, 11, being caused to engage and beforced against the chamfered or bevelled side portions 9, 9, of theextension part 5- of the base-plate pocket 6. These side portions 9, 9,act as an anvil, and cause the prongs 11, 11, to be bent over laterallytowards one another and to enter the pocket 6 so that in their finalclenched position they lie against the base part 3 of the pocket (seeFIG- URES 3 and 4). The hook-like device is thus firmly secured to thematerial 12 with the front [tongue 4 slightly spaced from the materialto enable it to be readily engaged with a staple, eye or the like.

Preferably, the back plate Iii is, as illustrated, of a length such thatit extends somewhat beyond the free end of the front tongue 4, therebyfacilitating engagement of the latter with the staple, eye or the like.

In a modification shown in FIGURES 7 and 8, instead of the plate 1 beingcranked and the extended end portion of the base of the hook-like devicebeing folded over the top of the main portion of saidbase, the plate 1ais flat with one end 13 folded beneath, to form the transverse pocket 14for receiving the prongs of the back plate. In (this case, the oppositesides of one end of the main portion of the plate 1a is provided withchamfered or bevelled surfaces 15 for bending over the prongs, and gaps16 for the prongs are formed underneath in the edges of the folded-underend 13. l

I claim:

1. A fastening device for a garment, comprising a backing plate disposedon one side of the'material of said garment and having integralattachment prongs extending through to the other side thereof; and alongitudinal plate member disposed on said garment over the underlyingbacking plate, said plate member having a tongue-shaped hook portion atone end and an integral hollow, transversely directed, prong enclosingportion at the other end, the attachment prongs of said backing plateextending into said hollow portion through longitudinally directed sideopenings therein, the tongueshaped hook portion of said plate memberbeing spaced a distance away from the-garment.

2. A fastening device for a garment, comprising a backing plate disposedon one side of the material of said garment and having integralattachment prongs extending through to the other side thereof; and alongitu dinal plate member disposed on said garment over the underlyingbacking plate, said plate member having a tongue-shaped hook portion atone end an integral foldedover pocket portion at the other end, saidpocket portion having an inclined end wall integral with the inner endof said tongue-shaped 'hook pontion, and spaced upper and lower walls,the upper wall of said pocket portion being in planar alignment withsaid tongue-shaped hook portion, said pocket portion further havinglongitudinally directed side openings, the attachment prongs of saidbacking plate extending into said hollow portion through said sideopenings.

3. A fastening device in accordance with claim 2, wherein the tips ofthe sides of said upper Wall extend inclinedly in the direction of saidlower Wall to provide prong-clenching surfaces.

4. A fastening device in accordance with claim 3, wherein the sides ofsaid lower Wall have slotted marginal portions.

5. A fastening device in accordance with claim 2, wherein the upper Wallof said pocket portion is an integral co-planar extension of saidtongue-shaped hook portion, the transverse end wall of said pocketportion remote from said tongue-shaped hook portion being integral withsaid upper wall.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS481,124 Thomson Aug. 16, 1892 831,901 Stimpson Sept. 25, 1906 102,923,044 Hoch Feb. 2, 1960

1. A FASTENING DEVICE FOR A GARMENT, COMPRISING A BACKING PLATE DISPOSEDON ONE SIDE OF THE MATERIAL OF SAID GARMENT AND HAVING INTEGRALATTACHMENT PRONGS EXTENDING THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE THEREOF; AND ALONGITUDINAL PLATE MEMBER DISPOSED ON SAID GARMENT OVER THE UNDERLYINGBACKING PLATE, SAID PLATE MEMBER HAVING A TONGUE-SHAPED HOOK PORTION ATONE END AND AN INTEGRAL HOLLOW, TRANSVERSELY DIRECTED, PRONG ENCLOSINGPORTION AT THE OTHER END, THE ATTACHMENT PRONGS OF SAID BACKING PLATEEXTENDING INTO SAID HOLLOW PORTION THROUGH LONGITUDINALLY DIRECTED SIDEOPENINGS THEREIN, THE TONGUESHAPED HOOK PORTION OF SAID PLATE MEMBERBEING SPACED A DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE GARMENT.